#story

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first. ↗

— Laura Linney

#become #cry #easy #feel #first

Love is the most beautiful thing that can happen to someone. No one can explain that feeling and desires engrossing a person preparing to give their heart to someone. ↗

— Natalie Ansard

#love-novel #love-story #beauty

History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it preferred to be shocking. ↗

— Sean DeLauder

#history-of-mankind #beauty

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. ↗

— John Lithgow

#carousel #darkest #experiences #exuberant #filled

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis. ↗

— Eric Liu

#barack #barack obama #call #carried #certainly

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves. ↗

— Eric Liu

#believes #bush #cannot #clarity #days

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#internationalist #internationally #least #need #nowadays

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#civilization #collapsed #developed #does #fate

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#acting #certain #i #i love #love

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#actually #else #i #i think #opposite